Copying "Rango" and similar DVDs

[dphirschler]

I thought I would post my experience with copying the movie "Rango". I am not sure what the copy protection is called, but it would have required about 66GB of hdd space to decrypt it using RipIt4Me. I didn't have 66GB free and I only wanted the movie. This is how I copied it.

Software:
- BDlot DVD ISO Master (free)
- VLC Player (free)
- DVD Shrink (free)
- (optional) Some ISO mounting software. I used Daemon Tools.

1) Rip the ISO using BDlot DVD ISO Master. The ISO was about 6.6GB

2) Open the ISO in DVD Shrink.

3) Select "Reauthor" and look at the list of "movies". There were like 20 or so, each one with a different time length. Which one is the right one?

4) Open the ISO in VLC Player.

5) Play the movie and observe the time length in VLC. Remember that number.

6) Return to DVD Shrink and select the movie with the same time length.

7) Back it up and you are done!


Darryl

[yoda313]

You should have used dvdfabdecrypter. It has a free version. As far as I know ripit4me is like many other programs that haven't been updated in forever.

[SLK001]

DVDFabDecrypter is the way to go with this release.

[jman98]

For the sake of others who will read this thread and may not know, RipIt4Me, DVDDecrypter and DVD Shrink have not been updated in YEARS and NONE of them understand how to deal with some of the current bad sector copy methods like "Rango" and other films use. Commercial programs such as DVDFabDecrypter and AnyDVD or the free DVDFabDecrypter (trails the commercial version by 6+ months though) are the best way to deal with current copy protection methods that make DVDs seem to have impossibly large video contents.

[dphirschler]

FWIW, RipIt4Me is still surprisingly current. The bad news with that program is the way in which it goes about its business. It rips everything that seems to be on the disc (in this case 66 GB) and then eliminates the fake stuff finally arriving at a usable DVD. But I could not spare that kind of hdd space this time.


Darryl

[hech54]

FWIW, RipIt4Me is still surprisingly current.l

No.....it's not current AT ALL.
Latest version:
1.7.1.0 (March 23, 2007)

[dphirschler]

I meant that it can still copy current DVDs. It continues to surprise me to this day.

[CobraPilot]

FWIW, RipIt4Me is still surprisingly current.l

No.....it's not current AT ALL.
Latest version:
1.7.1.0 (March 23, 2007)

Not current, to be sure, but still VERY useful in a high percentage of backup situations (I'm guessing 85+%). Too many of us equate "not updated in awhile" to "useless." Just isn't so in this case with RipIt4Me.

When it says there is 66 gb to backup, that is an automatic alert that it is not the software of choice, and the user should turn to the other options mentioned, especially dvdfabdecrypter.

[seth fang]

U wanna back up Rango, it's easy to rip it to ISO. So u can absolutely just BDlot DVD ISO Master, it will automatically get rid of DVD protections. With one click, there u go, Rango is already in .iso, why did u use DVD Shrink, DVDdecryper...?

[hech54]

U wanna back up Rango, it's easy to rip it to ISO. So u can absolutely just BDlot DVD ISO Master, it will automatically get rid of DVD protections. With one click, there u go, Rango is already in .iso, why did u use DVD Shrink, DVDdecryper...?

I really like BDLot....but completely detest (HATE) spammers.

[dphirschler]

U wanna back up Rango, it's easy to rip it to ISO. So u can absolutely just BDlot DVD ISO Master, it will automatically get rid of DVD protections. With one click, there u go, Rango is already in .iso, why did u use DVD Shrink, DVDdecryper...?

Because the ISO was 6GB. I didn't want to backup the whole disc, just the movie, so I opened the ISO in DVD Shrink and backed up just the movie with minimal compression. BDlot was very useful in this regard. It couldn't do everything, but it did enough.


Darryl

[seth fang]

OK, that makes sense. I got BDlot products for free because of its giveaways. I know what u mean now, for me, this is not problem. Coz i also have BDlot DVD Clone, it's more powerful than ISO Master, and has more features. It can copy the main title or any chapter of a movie. So i dont have to use a software combo to back up a DVD. Anyways, i just like the free stuff.

[dphirschler]

This backup method also worked for "A Christmas Carol" (Disney 2009). DVD Shrink listed 13 titles under "Main Movie" varying in length from 1:17.59 to 1:46.30. The correct one was 1:35.48.


Darryl

[jman98]

Disney and Sony both are the most infamous in the USA/Canada for the "too much info to really be on the disc" form of copy protection.

[seth fang]

Anyways, i prefer the free stuff...